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How to list all possible combinations of the values in three columns in excel?

I have three columns, each of which has different kinds of master data as shown below:

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Now, I want to have all possible combinations of these three cells - like

aa kk jj
aa kk ff
aa ll jj
aa ll ff
aa mm jj
...

Can this be done with a formula. I found one formula with 2 columns, but i'm not able to extend it to 3 columns correctly

Formula with 2 columns:

=IF(ROW()-ROW($G$1)+1>COUNTA($A$2:$A$15)*COUNTA($B$2:$B$4),"",
INDEX($A$2:$A$15,INT((ROW()-ROW($G$1))/COUNTA($B$2:$B$4)+1))&
INDEX($B$2:$B$4,MOD(ROW()-ROW($G$1),COUNTA($B$2:$B$4))+1))

where G1 is the cell to place the resulting value

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Ravi Avatar asked Feb 06 '18 20:02

Ravi


1 Answers

You can do this with a formula:

=IFERROR(INDEX($A:$A,IF(INT((ROW(1:1)-1)/(((COUNTA(B:B)-1)*((COUNTA(C:C)-1)))))+2>COUNTA(A:A),-1,INT((ROW(1:1)-1)/(((COUNTA(B:B)-1)*((COUNTA(C:C)-1)))))+2))&" "&INDEX(B:B,MOD(INT((ROW(1:1)-1)/(COUNTA(C:C)-1)),(COUNTA(B:B)-1))+2)&" "&INDEX(C:C,MOD((ROW(1:1)-1),(COUNTA(C:C)-1))+2),"")

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Scott Craner Avatar answered Sep 20 '22 14:09

Scott Craner